Technique, Style, and Strategy from America’s Top Speaking Coach

by Jerry Weissman

Jerry Weissman is the presentations coach to Microsoft, Cisco Systems, and many of America's top executives, including founding Yahoo CEO Tim Koogle, Intuit founder Scott Cook, Netflix founder and CEO Reed Hastings, and many others. Now America's top coach reveals the same powerful strategies he teaches to CEOs in expensive private sessions. Learn why your body language and voice are more important than your words, how to present with poise and confidence naturally, and how to connect with...

The New Rules for Getting the Right Things Done in Difficult Times

by Ram Charan

Today’s business environment is challenging if not downright dangerous. Business advisor and best-selling author Ram Charan describes steps you can take right now to steer your organization away from the pitfalls and position it for a new future. You'll find practical techniques that will help you cope with cash and credit crunches, shrinking budgets, collapsing markets, sinking morale, disappearing suppliers and nervous stakeholders. And Charan will show you where to find –– and how to...

Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life

by Dave Logan, Steve Zaffron

How do companies –– in different countries and industries –– all achieve breakthrough performance when the odds are stacked against them? The answer: By applying The Three Laws of Performance and thereby re-writing their futures. Authors Steve Zaffrron and Dave Logan crack the code on rewriting the future for people and organizations, elevating performance to unprecedented levels.

Achieve a Competitive Edge by Creating a Culture of Accountability

by Tom Smith, Roger Connors

Journey to the Emerald City, describes the process for Creating a Culture of Accountability® that energizes every level of the organization, from the senior management team to the front-line worker, and, most importantly, it outlines the best and fastest way to create that culture so that you can quickly begin enjoying the results of a greater competitive advantage.

A Philosophy for Leaders

by Peter Koestenbaum

In Leadership: The Inner Side of Greatness, legendary business philosopher and thinker Peter Koestenbaum invites managers to break out of the ordinary managerial mindset. He reveals how striving for greatness enables managers to focus their efforts and grasp new ideas and insights by bringing intensity and meaning to their work — thereby improving their ability to achieve bottom-line results. He also demonstrates that when leaders live out their deepest and most personal commitmen

Managing people is difficult. With disengagement and turnover on the rise, many managers are scratching their heads wondering what to do. It's not that we don't dream of being great managers, it's just that we haven't found a practical and efficient way to do it. Through the story of one company, The Dream Manager explores the connection between the dreams we are chasing personally and the way we all engage at work. Taking on the growing problem of employee disengagement, this ...

Your Business Survival Guide

by Roy Osing

Osing, a leading senior executive in the Canadian telecommunications industry, shares strategies he has personally developed and executed for immunizing an organization against performance decline and business failure. This is an invaluable resource for any leader seeking to create a competitive edge for his or her organization and build long-term success.

A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

by Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner

A Soundview Featured Book ReviewFreakonomics offers readers the hidden facts buried within the stories they live and see dramatized every day, along with the numbers and statistics that can help them draw sense from the chaos. By justifying the use of strange questions to get at the heart of the matter, the authors show how economists turn collections of facts into unusual theories and then prove them by applying critical analysis.

How 100 Great Careers Got Their Start

by Peter Han

Nobodies to Somebodies explores how many successful people found their true callings in a wide range of fields, and went from Nobodies to Somebodies. Based on interviews with 100 highly accomplished leaders — actors, CEOs, senators, scientists and others — this summary describes the early paths they traveled, the hard choices they made, and the lessons they learned along the way. Describing many extremely diverse career paths, it explores common themes and lessons that can help anyone e